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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
First off, I liked to say awesome job PH! Thank you for all your hard work!

Now, normally I have been able to find an answer to any my questions by reading through this entire thread and I've been following this rom since v.2.0 and I've kept up with the thread and flashed each Blazer Rom since then. However I've had this issue now for a couple weeks and I simply don't know how to fix my phone.

Currently, I am running Blazer 3.9. I've been trying to update to Blazer 4.0 but have not been able to. For each Blazer ROM I've flashed, I have been content with how it ran. With Blazer 3.9, I wanted to try to something different, so I Odex'ed my rom using the zip file from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1476617

I think this is where the root of the problem starts. Ever since then, I slowly began to have more force closes and now I have not been able to flash any ROMs over Blazer 3.9. I can not download any new apps or even update any of my apps because somehow whenever I restart my phone, any changes I've made to my phone have disappeared. Changes including apps I've downloaded, any text messages I've made, any changes I make that is on my internal storage disappears. The only thing I have been able to change or flash is my modem. I've been able to change my modem perfectly fine. However any new kernels or ROMs I have not been able to flash.

Now of course the first thing I tried was to revert to a Nandroid backup. However, all the backups I've tried have failed. Each time I've attempted, it appears to have completed, but when my phone restarts, the state of the phone remains the same and its like I have not changed anything.

Then I've tried using ODIN and reverting back to stock. Nope, still the same. Tried using ODIN, to revert as unrooted with Stock Rom. No go. I've Tried factory reseting my phone and storage through ClockworkMod. Nope, nothing. My best assumption is that when I Odex'ed Blazer 3.9 something went wrong along the way. Now, I don't know what to do and I'm stuck...

Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to be thorough and didn't want to miss out on the things that I've tried to remedy this.

If anyone can possibly help and give me any kind of solution...it would be greatly appreciated. Please and Thank You in Advance!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Seems like you have a bad phone...

However if you odin back to stock does it fix it? Does stock stick?

If it does reroot then recwm.

Use calks format

Flash blazer rom 4.0

Flash dalvik cache

Go back to to cwm restore apps from nandroid under advanced restore.

Then reboot let me know what happens
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah, I've tried using Odin back to stock, but it doesn't stick. It looks like it completes, but once it restarts, its still on blazer 3.9.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
What happens if you do a full format
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
A full format through clockworkmod? Nothing. It doesn't stick either.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
No if you odin back to stock....
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Try restoring a backup using rom manager.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Btw what version of cwm are you on? there is a fix permissions in the cwm menu that may fix it let me know if it does... Otherwise can you retry to odex maybe something corrupted
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah I've tried to odex the ROM again. And I'm running Rogue Recovery 1.1.2 (CWM v.5.0.2.7). I think I tried flashing another kernel but that failed too. Thanks for the help btw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Try the fix permissions from recovery as gr33d3vil suggested.

Also, try restoring a backup through rom manager. That will load the stock cwm recovery. If that doesnt work atleast we can eliminate the recovery as the cause of the problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcaplinger76:
Is there anyway to get the month calendar widget un-themed? I can't see the numbers on a dark background. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah Ive tried fixing permissions and just tried restoring through ROM manager...still no dice
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Try flashing rogue 1.4.1 that may fix issues link is here... http://goo-inside.me/kernels/TeamRo...ource_Built/rogue_ET-1.4.1-gunslinger-cwr.zip

Let me know if this sticks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Just tried flashing that gunslinger zip...still showing that it its on rogue 1.1.2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
I know you said you tried factory reset, but did you try flashing calk's format all? Try flashing that and rebooting. If it works, you'll know because you wont be able to boot up. Then just go back into recovery and flash 4.0.

EDIT: make sure to use his format all and not the modified no data version.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
I've tried flashing calks format all before. And I tried again just now to flash the calks format all and rebooting, it still was able to boot up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] meatwadathf:
Wow, I have pretty much run out of ideas. Try posting in the general/QA forum. You'll get more help and hopefully someone will know what to do.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Alright try this... In this order

Boot into cwm...

Wipe cache

Wipe dalvic cache

Under mounts an storage perform format system

Now format data

Now flash 4.0 zip an reboot
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Haha thanks. Yeah I've tried most things that usually fixes most issues.

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Yeah, I tried

wipe cache

wipe davlic cache

that did format system

then formated data using calks format all

lastly flashed 4.0.

still on blazer 3.9...haha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Did yiu bother looking at the logs to see why its not formating or flashing?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
I can fix the problem indefinetly.

Download either version of Odin1 Click. One version will wipe EVERYTHING including Internal SD storage, while the other will just wipe all the system related bits and flash you back to rooted EL29.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1433101&highlight=el29+odin+root

From there Odin Steadyhawkins 1.4.1 kernel and flash newest blazer rom and youll be good to go. If you need any more help ill be glad to assist.

PS: For any of you that might still be getting sleep of death with steady hawkins kernel.....Its a combo of Juice Defender and this whole "sometimes things wipe clean and sometimes they dont issue" for days i had SoD issue even though i would flash the wipe all script and wipe everything manually myself and then reflash the rom and kernel. It was only fixed by doing a TOTAL wipe with the odin link i posted above and then finding my way back to blazer rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Ha i waz just posting the same link after reading i believe theres a conflict but odin should fix it unless it errors but if it errors it should at least tell him why...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
when i format and/or flash any zips. it says install complete. but ill go through and try odin1 click. thanks everyone for all your help. ill let you know if it sticks...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
as long as you do it just like the instructions say ( i recommend a full wipe also) itll have no choice but to "Stick" lol. Youre effectively Nuking your phone back to EL29 stock :]
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] imakul8:
This works even if on other kernel/modem other than EL29?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
So I chose the full restore option. Followed all the instructions carefully. It said everything was complete and passed. However after reboot, my phone remained the same...still on Blazer 3.9
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
you put your phone in download mode?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mamouton:
I installed the 4.0 Blazer rom and I am not able to get the contact history (showing text, messages, phone calls, email, etc) to show up in any on the roms (Calkulin 29 or ICS) When I go back to this one SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097 my contact history shows up. Can anyone offer a possible fix?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
yehp put the phone in download mode. odin ran, did its thing. It said it completed. The status turned green with the word Pass. And once it rebooted, it was like how it's been doing after reboots: like nothing happened.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
If you put the phone in download mode and it ran through odin and it said that it completed successfully and it rebooted your phone for you and you still have blazer there is something physically wrong with your internal flash storage or something 0_o.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Any possible way to fix the internal flash storage? haha
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
Lol I mean thats just a guess....and its only a guess because whats happening here makes NO logical sense 0_o.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah I understand haha. I've been trying to find a fix for a couple weeks now. I mean I tried flashing different things, restoring, used odin a couple times. But its like stuck on odexed blazer 3.9. I mean its an awesome ROM an all, but I cant update anything. no new apps. no updates to apps. no new roms.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
i guess something else you can try is ##786X in the dialer. That should atleast reset the rom clean and wipe your internal storage. Im gonna have you try something else in a minute also.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] geek wana-b:
I flashed a zip the zip to give me a 5row app drawer and auto hide page indicators, and now my battery is stuck at 38% and 39%, it just goes up and down between the two percent readings. Can anyone help?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
how do u dial X after ##786 ?

never mind haha

actually when i go to reset, how do u find the msL?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
First thing you should is try is letting your phone die all the way. Then charging it back to full. see if the problem still happens.

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lol yeah i mean ##786# XD my bad

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Is it asking for msl in order to reset? as long as you have root the easy way to get it is just search in the app store for msl finder
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah I was able to find my msl and I let it run through, but I don't think it cleared out my internal storage because I still have files from my internal memory.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
Okay so what i want you to try is

download this (Odin 1.85) http://d.pr/OhwE

and extract it

then download this .tar

www.holylivingfuck.com/S0ckMonk3y/E4GT/HOME_SPH-D710_CL852097_user.tar.zip

when you download the .tar file its in a zip so youll need to extract it FIRST before putting it in the "pda" slot of odin lol. first were gonna try this. if this doesnt work....i have the "PIT" file aka Partition Instruction Table File. This will allow you to reformat the partitions on your phone back to the original way they should be. There is a risk with this though (as with anything you could brick) but yeah, try the odin 1.85 and that EL29 tar first.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yeah I've tried using that odin with that tar file before to try and go back to stock, but it still didnt work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
Okay then lets try the pit file along with that tar.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265023&highlight=pit

Add the tar in the pda section and add the pit file (obviously) and make sure that "repartition" is checked and hit go.

Disclaimer though...If something happens (which is always a risk) you cant rage at me :P
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
haha alright. ill give it a try. thanks for all your help again btw.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
No problem, lets hope this works though. Because after this im pretty much fresh out of ideas.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Good News: Phone is not bricked. Bad News: That didn't work either. haha.

Looks like my phone really loves blazer 3.9 and won't let go.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
I dont know why but I just have this feeling that your missing a step or something lol. I mean like...ive never seen an Odin say it worked and not do anything no matter what. Have you tried using odin on a different computer? and youre sure that youre in download mode(From phone off you hold volume down and power) and not recovery? Lol this is just crazy.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neoimpulse:
Yes, I've used Odin on 2 different computers with 4 different USB cords. And yes I was in download mode and not in recovery. I'm not a noob haha.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] HaiKaiDo:
Lol it never hurts to ask and double check....well dang man i dont know what to tell you. If you ever figure this one out let me know cause im sure as hell intrigued now lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SpartanVissepo:
Does anyone have a zip.for the hoolm battery mod the link seems to be down.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ydoucare:
One *very* minor, but weird thing I've noticed about this ROM is that the CRT off animation develops a sort of "pixelated" look after a while. A reboot fixes it, but it usually comes back at some random time until you reboot again. The animation still looks normal for the most part, but just as it starts, you can see some weird pixelation as if it's corrupted or something. Just something interesting I found.

In the attached pic: on the left is what i'm talking about above and on the right is normal.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
I have this on 4.0 an 4.1
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SuperSwagSauce:
FC14 Blazer? Pleeaasseeee??

Sent from my Super Sexy Epic touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] rbtrucking:
Ya I have noticed that myself but honestly I have seen that on ever single rom I have used with the crt off animation. With the exception of StrongSteves odexed blue! Also an amazing rom for anyone wondering.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] maddness505:
that would be awesome!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peperonikiller:
Can anyone upload the Social Hub Phantom has on his mod page. The download link is down and I can't get it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texas83:
My stock messaging app constantly force closes every single time. Is there a fix to flash? I use google voice most of the time but need messaging app for mms. Thank you!

Sent from my Awesome Galaxy SII
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] robpet2:
havent had any problems with the messaging app at all.. actually this rom is issue free for me.. cant find anything wrong with it..

you should try a fresh flash with a full wipe ..

i flashed back to this rom from ics fc07 and didnt have any issues at all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] texas83:
Everything else runs AMAZING - i'd hate to reflash and screw up my set up. If I just flash blazer4.0 on top of existing blazer4.0, will that have any adverse effects?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
No it will be fine
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcaplinger76:
Been trying to run the battery down on this and finding it very hard... Anybody else experiencing this???
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] frankquattrone:
I've run into a weird problem and not sure if this is a ROM issue. When I run navigation and stick my phone in my Infuse car dock, there is no voice. It definitely worked on stock and maybe up to 3.7. Since 3.8 and beyond, I've had this problem. I still get the voice if I take it out of the dock. I already tried clearing data on maps. Anyone else have this problem or has a dock and doesn't have this problem? Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] TheHighlightGuy:
I have that dock, but I'm kinda confused by "voice?"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sedric1:
this is my first rom install (blazer 4.0) and i love it. the only issue im having thus far is that my hotpot speedtest was extremely slow (went to speedtest on my laptop).

my speeds were;

1st time; home wifi - 8mb download 1 mb upload

2nd time; 3g hotspot - .13 download .02 upload

3rd time; 4g hotspot - .3 download .6 upload

These were all tested on the same laptop. i flipped it to open network for this test as well. not sure if its rom related or something else but was expecting faster speeds i suppose.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] chogbonna:
I'm currently on calks ics rom... Fb 21.. And I'm wondering if there's any special steps to flash this one, besides wiping n flashing the ROM?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] robpet2:
did you install a different messaging app after flashing ?? mine has no issues at all..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] frankquattrone:
Sorry. By voice I meant the spoken navigation directions. Like, "In 300 feet, turn left."

Actually, I think that all sounds are muted now that I think about it. And yes, I've tried turning up the volume, making sure it wasn't in silent mode, turned off/on driving mode. As soon as I pop it out of the dock, the nice navigation lady starts talking again ;)

Wow do I feel stupid. Apparently I had checked the setting use external speaker when docked. I don't remember ever doing that but oh well.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhantomHacker:
Expect a public release of Blazer ICS by the end of the weekend.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcaplinger76:
Can't wait, although I have this version running so well its gonna be hard to switch
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] neuteboomt:
I believe you need to ODIN back to EL29. The recovery in ICS likes to brick phones. I would not flash anything with ICS recovery.

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You know you will flash it..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RCOVA:
Is ICS Blazer almost out for the public?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dcaplinger76:
He posted earlier that he should have it out by the end of the weekend.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Docarut:
You do know most developers state "never ask about eta". Now we will have to wait a week;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RCOVA:
I was actually asking about a Blazer with ICS on them. I want to look good. ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Docarut:
I know-eta as in eta of ICS ROM. I knew what you meant. I want to look good too! I have tried one of the ICS ROMs and came back to this Blazer ROM. Looking forward to seeing this one though. We have to show patience....:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RCOVA:
I was kind of making a joke. Like a Blazer jacket with an "ICS" on it. So he wouldn't think I was asking for the rom. But I guess I failed. Haha.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Docarut:
That is pretty funny. Went right over my head! Maybe if you said Blazer with ICS elbow patches....all good fun.:)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] drew2jr:
mms

Hey great rom I love it but I'm not getting picture messages.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] R2D2 631:
does blazer have the lockscreen settings??? If not, could it be put in next time..has good custom settings, especially to disable lockscreen..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rob4828:
No it doesnt
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rob4828:
Ever since I been using this rom, I haven't had los yet. Its been a week and a couple of days
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ricoroadstar:
+1I haven't had any los at all either. I was thinking about running the new radio cus I'm on eg 30 but decided to wait till it happened.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rob4828:
I'm on eg 31 but even if I was on eg 30 I would probably wait as well. Hopefully it doesn't happen
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] zeks:
I also was good for about a week, actually thought this rom fix my LoS issues, but starting last night I have had countless LoS now. Can't wait for official update now to come out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Amd4life:
been running 1,2 EG31, not one LOS in a week

im sold and sticking with this one

appreciate the update
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digweed4me:
This rom is amazing combined with ek02 kernel i got this score on stock no overclock.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scarmon25:
Just flashed this with the updated Rogue kernel. Was previously on Calkulin's ROM and figured since I was running the ICS theme might as well try this out. After getting all my system apps moved over and slimmed out the ones I didn't want. I have to say this is really nice. Just wish it had the honeycomb style lock screen as the default one since its the closest to the ICS and that seems to be the direction you're going in. But seriously greak work. Coming from another phone you're never quite sure how the development is going to be till you start flashing. I am so very happy with what I discovered when I got here. Thanks for your time in making this. Cheers.

Sent from a Calked up SGS II
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smccall:
Deodex I've gotten a score of 70,170 and 200
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AnAm85:
Nice! Glad to see my artwork in the community!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AsinX:
Glad to see there's no AIO mod on this. I've noticed when putting different lockscreens the phone does random internal reboots. Also the status bar never changes. Hopefully they get that stable enough to put on here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
I am running his rom with the lockscreen, I only changed over the necessary files and had to mod the framework but it is working with the theme.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] smccall:
scarmon25;19939661]Just flashed this with the updated Rogue kernel. Was previously on Calkulin's ROM and figured since I was running the ICS theme might as well try this out. After getting all my system apps moved over and slimmed out the ones I didn't want. I have to say this is really nice. Just wish it had the honeycomb style lock screen as the default one since its the closest to the ICS and that seems to be the direction you're going in. But seriously greak work. Coming from another phone you're never quite sure how the development is going to be till you start flashing. I am so very happy with what I discovered when I got here. Thanks for your time in making this. Cheers.

Sent from a Calked up SGS II[/QUOTE]

I agree this rom is very nice there is an app called widget locker in the android market you would like. It has the ics lock screen and more its very Customizable. The ics lock screen looks great with this rom.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] digitalcrash:
I use the android 4 free from magiclocker and it looks and works great
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stparker38:
GreatROM!!

Just want to say thank you for this excellent ROM!!! I still don't know what Odex vs. Deodex means...but that's ok. If someone doesn't mind explaining that to me I would appreciate it.

I know that I like the ROM and haven't had LOS yet. My phone runs smoothly and quick...and my battery life is good. So again, great job and THANKS!!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] big_slug06:
I would just like to say that this rom is epic! i have never gotten over like 16hrs no matter what the use! i used pretty heave yesterday and i'm still at 25%! 1 day 3 hours! ...going back to sleep now :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] stparker38:
OK...HELP

I did a backup of my system. That is all. When I rebooted system it made to lockscreen and is now continuously soft rebooting from the lockscreen. It will not stop. Any suggestions? I removed battery and turned on and it did the same thing again.... are backups not allowed? I like to backup any good ROM in case I get a bad ROM or file then I can just go back to what I know works.... Any help would be appreciated!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] scarmon25:
I had that happen right after I flashed it for the first time. I had just flashed to I just booted into recovery and flashed the format all zip and then reflashed the ROM. Not sure what caused it. Haven't had it happen since.

If all else fails just reflash the ROM from a clean slate.

Sent from a Blazed SGS II
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Rob4828:
Just had my first los today with this rom
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dw3bb10:
Looking forward to ICS Blazer! Woot Woot!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gr33nd3vil:
Settings system update profile then update prl reboot an send a mms
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AKfortyseven:
same here man. I can't wait
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gotimekill:
Ditto! Great work Phantom!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Wacky2bakky:
I'm currently on Blazer 4.1 Wondering is there anyway to remove the CRT Animation via a ZIP file or anything? Because sometimes when I unlock and lock my phone, the CRT animation sometime shows black and white fuzzy lines? Anyone else ever experienced this or know of a way to fix it?